Word: question
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday Mr. Conant began his speech by asking the question whether a "free and classless society" was a valid ideal or an illusion. Thereupon he set out to prove that the former was true. His argument might be staked out in two claims: first, that the essence of a classless society is a high degree of "social mobility"--or equality of opportunity for each member of a new generation regardless of his inherited social position; and second, that this social mobility can be largely obtained by, education. After hearing him out, most of his listeners must have been unconvinced...
Wars may come & go, but the cannonading over the question whether there is or is not a U. S. school in art goes on forever. Meanwhile, art appreciation in the U. S. has come of age with a bang. In 1939 a barrage of art books has been aimed at the public taste. Biggest is Thomas Craven's A Treasury of Art Masterpieces,* a portable gallery of 144 color reproductions ranging from Giotto to Grant Wood. Most aggressive is Peyton Boswell Jr.'s Modern American Painting,† which is as nationalistic as the Spirit...
...This question was justified by the condition of many a manufacturer's order books: to provide against price rises and shortage, his customers had swamped him with orders; now they have ordered and the foreign war purchasers have not yet come along; he has a huge backlog but few new orders coming in. Shall he operate at 100% till January-and trust to the gods for 1940 orders-or shall he operate at 75% and be sure of keeping busy till March...
...Harvard question mark is partially solved by Saturday's shellacking at the hands of the Penn Quakers. At present the Crimson falls way short of greatness or even popular anticipation. But while the results of the Penn game were discouraging, prediction of successive losses is a cry far afield...
...Press conference following the game, Coach Dick Harlow effectively summed up the situation by saying, "It was a question of a good, experienced team playing one with possibilities." Perhaps remembering the Cornell game a year ago and the subsequent success of a slow starting eleven, Dick and his staff refused to adopt a defeatist attitude...